Hi Monks,

I am looking to become familiar with the WWW::Mechanize Module. I am trying to learn how to automate inputs in some fields but dont quite understand why I see different outputs with the following code at different uri....

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use WWW::Mechanize;
use strict; 

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get("https://www.google.com/");
#$mech->get("https://www.southwest.com/");

print $mech->uri();
print "\n";

my @theForms = $mech->forms();
print $#theForms."\n";  #How many forms are returned in the array


foreach my $form (@theForms) {

        my @inputfields = $form->param;
        foreach my $input (@inputfields){
            print $input."\n";
        }
}

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When I navigate to google.com, I get this output listing the size of the form array and the fields within each form object

https://www.google.com/
0
ie
hl
source
biw
bih
q
btnG
btnI
gbv

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When I navigate to southwest.com, I get this output telling me there are no forms? Why might this be?

https://www.southwest.com/
-1

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Thanks in advance!

In reply to WWW::Mechanize Forms... by lstacey

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